Quantum systems in contact with a thermal environment: Rigorous treatment of a simple model

DOI10.1007/BF01217962zbMath0657.60085OpenAlexW2024128136MaRDI QIDQ1110916

S. H. Smith

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01217962

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic potentialquantum Langevin equationparticle interacting with a phonon bathquantum systems in a dissipative environment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Stochastic analysis (60H99)

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